HEAT TRANSFER PRINTING

This is the process used to do transferr printing

1) Firstly i had to photocopy the design that i wanted to heat transferr, then cover the photocopy with disperse dye.

Make sure you get to the edges with the dye.

  2) Blow dry the paper to it dries quicker.

It should be absulutely dry.

 3) Put the paper ontop of some fabric, iv'e used poly cotton because it works best on theat fabric, under the press and when the heat press goes to zero peel off the paper and reveal the heat tranferr design.

I've also done it on my final idea illustration, so i covered the photocopy with the ink, blow dried it until it's dry.

 Then put the paper over the fabric, with paper under and over it, to protect it from burning in the heat press.

 This was when i put it under the heat press.

Close it until the bars click down.

 Wait for it to count down to zero, then it's safe to take it out.

 This is the heat transferr and the origional photocopy covered in the disperse dye.

 Another way how to do heat tranfer, is to paint your design with the ink straight onto paper then press it onto the fabric, however ive done it ontop of the photocopy so it wont come out that effective.

 Another way of doing this is, is using stencils. So i cut out a circular pattern stencil.

 On another piece of paper colour in the whole paper with te disperse ink- in my case i was being experimental so i painted stripes and left it to dry.

 Under the press first lay the paper, that will protect your work from burning, then the fabic, then the stencil then the dyed paper nd another paper to protect, then press together.

 This was the final outcome, which looks very effective and i'm very proud of.

 I also experiemented by using that stencil technique but with my print under it.

So i covered it with the dye.

Blowed it with the hair dryer.

 and did the same thing as the last one, except instead of putting the striped dyed paper put the print dyed paper ontop of the stencil.

And this is the final outcome which was also very effective and experimental.

 

LINO PRINTING

Lino Printing using a block of lino, with the carved out design and just pressed onto the fabric.

1) This is the lino, i had to engrave away the pattern that wasn't gonna show on the actual print.

These are the eqipment that are used to do this.

2) This is what it looks like when it's finished.

3) With the roler, role on an equal amount of paint on to the block.

4) Line up the block where wanted and if happy with position, put it down.

5) With a clean roler, role over the top of the block firmly, rolling all the way to the edges.

6) Then gently peel the lino off the paper/ fabric.

THE OTHER WAY OF SCREEN PRINTING

The professional way of screen printing is getting the codatrace transferred to the screen but this way, you take a plain screen and tape the kodatrace to it.

1) Tape down the kodatrace onto the silk screen with masking tape.

and tape the edges of the screen aswell

This is what the screen looks like when you take off the kodatrace, sometimes the screen gets clogged up with paint if dried, or if used over a long while, so you'll have to move the kodatrace to a clean part of the screen, and it'll work more effectively.

This is what the print looks like on a chiffon fabric when it's finished.

SCREEN PRINTING

This is the process for screen printing

1) Daw out the pattern you want to print, then photocopy it onto acitate.

 2) Then it gets transferred onto a silk screen

 3) Block off the edges with paper and masking tape, so paint dont go through.

 4) Tape fabric onto the table, line screen up where wanted, scoop some paint onto the top of the screen. With the squeegy firmly push down and pull dragging excess paint off the screen.

 5) Carefully lift off screen, and reveal print

6) I left it to dry and put it in my sketchbook.

This is all my Drawing illustration work in class and at home from week one, it's clear that i have developed my skills from the first couple of weeks, with proportion and gradient

In the first week we were concentrating on shapes and looking at contours and gradient.

This is my homework in my sketchbook for working on hand studies, i think iv'e done really well on these, considering i thought it was going to be really bad.

 This was the next week in class concentrating on continueous line, and contours.

 This was an stretcher activity for the homework set on the study of the hand, i was told to draw another hand concentrating on contours.

 I like these drawings, i think there well in proportion and 3 dimenional because iv'e included the contour lines.

 This is the study in class where we had to draw the model sitting down, i found it quite hard, as you can see it's a little no in proportion.

 In this lesson we was concentrating on guides and framework. The first two drawings i drew the heads too big, so i edited it, and the next two draweings were alot better in proportion.

 This drawing is good but i need to work on the hands more and the legs are a bit long, if i drew guides maybey it'd be more in proportion.

 This is a study of my sisters skeletal system, for my homework on different postures.

 I responded to the sheets that Adam gave us, and did my own studies to go with them.

 I liked this lesson, because i liked the work i completed in there, i thought the proportion was good and i like how i set it out on the page .

 I dont really like this drawing, tyhe legs were long so i edited it, to make it shorter, my expectations of myself is higher than this.

This is the study of the musculature system, and i really like this drawing. I think it's in good proportion and ive used the dark and light gradient well, where the dark areas are- dark gradient, light area- light gradient. We were also concentrating on the surrounding environment and the shadows on the floor.